Apparatus for discharging vertical retorts.



H. KOPPEES. APPARATUS FOR DISGHARGING VERTICAL RETOE'TS APPLICATION FILED JULY 28,

PatentedApr. 21, 1914.

, DfiDDDDUDDG D DLUUUDDUDD I1 t in. the center.

ens-lunar arcane, ILLEBNJIS, cost snares rtranr canton.

sentence are E. KOPPERS carecrow.

ItPPfiMEHEt F02? BIStJHARGIN 'VEETIQAL RETOEJTS.

It ibtfi Q3 To all whom itm'ag concern,

tie it known that I, HEINRICH Koreans,

a subject of theKing of Prussia, and residing at Moltkestrasse 29, Essen-on-t-heliuhr, in Prussia, Germany, have invented'a certain new and. useful'linprovemcnt in Apparatus for Discharging Vertical Rietorts, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to apparatus for discharging vertical retorts', the latter being either intermittently or continuously dis--' charged.- p t In connection with horizontal retort ovens for producing'coke and gas, it has been d1scovered that with high and narrow cha1nhers which are only heated at the sides, the cakes of coke split in the center. If, now, the chambers of vertical gas producing ovens areso dimensioned that they correspond approximately with the usual shape'of coking ovens, and most of the heat from the furnace is utilized to heat the" sides of the chambers,

the result Will be that in these particular- ,ovens the cake of eoke will likewise divide This phenomenon is utilized for emptying the retorts-by providing at the bottom \of each retort a wedgeshaped splitting body, which supportshthe cake of coke,

and splits the latter open along its central plane. Devices are also provided for forcing every cake to the left and right so that the cake of cokeisable to slowly descend. The particulars, dimensions of the chambers and the method of; eating them has another With ch a hereof the usual cross sections, and when heating them on all sides, a layer of graphite forms on the sidesof the retort and sets so firmly that it is impossible for it to automatically release itself. In the present case, however, owing to the extension of the Walls of the retort and to the front walls not being heated, the layers of graphite automatically peel off and pass away while the oven is in operation.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the oven and Fig. 2 is a. cross section-to a larger scald of an essential part of the invention.

Similar reference letters denote similar parts in all the figures,

The retorts arranged in pairs at the side of one another, have a cross section of ap proximately 450x2500nnn. They are pro- Specification ofhetters. Patent. application filed an as, isia.

I latented Apr. 21, 1914.

semi nu EHHAM. Y

vided with a common hopper 7) closed by an ordinary type of closure 0. The gas collect-- mg chambers of the 'retorts are connected to tworeceivers a and c. The heating of the vertical chambers is preferably effected in such manner that the heat is divided into two horizontal currents which remain so until they have passedthrough the lateral heat accumulators a and 0, thus enabling the pressl'lre to be regulated. .p and g are the lines. It should however be understood that the application of the invention is not confined to this particular ,constru oven and method of heating.

Pivoted underneath each retort a inside an extension f of the latter is a segmental body g' which can be rocked about a pivot by incansof a lever h and a rope or chain ction of The body 9 splits open the cake of cokealong its natural seam and forces it away to the left and right While simultaneously supporting the cake of coke. The bodies 9 are hollow and may be water cooled, the hot Water escaping through holes 1r formed in the apex s and thereby serving to cool the incandescent coke. The steam formed there-' by either escapes upward with the gas into the receivers d and e, or it is decomposed While passing through the contents of the re-" torts. This method of quenching the coke with hot water prevents the coke from being completely saturated or drowned with coke ovens comprising means for splitting the coke cake, and means for imparting a to and fro movement to said splitting means.

2. Apparatus for discharging ret-orts of coke ovens, comprising means for splitting the coke cake substantially along its central vertical plane to subdivide the cake into two sections, and means for moving the splitting means alternately against one and the .other of said sections.

3. Apparatus for discharging retorts of i members located at the bottom of said chemcoke ovens, comprising a water cooled holbers, aiid means for simultaneously inrartlow device for splitting the coke cake subi ing a to and fro movement to said mam ere. l0 stantially along its central vertieal' plane, HEINRICH KOPPERS. [L.S.]

8, and means for oscillating said device. Witnesses:

4. A coke oven'provided With a plurality HELEN NUFER, of coking chambers, coke cake -splitting l ALBERT News. 

